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One of the important characteristics of topological phases of matter is thetopology of the underlying manifold on which they are defined. In this paper,we present the sensitivity of such phases of matter to the underlying topology,by studying the phase transitions induced due to the change in the boundaryconditions. We claim that these phase transitions are accompanied by brokensymmetries in the excitation space and to gain further insight we analyzevarious signatures like the ground state degeneracy, topological entanglemententropy while introducing the open-loop operator whose expectation valueeffectively captures the phase transition. Further, we extend the analysis toan open quantum setup by defining effective collapse operators, the dynamics ofwhich cool the system to different topologically ordered steady states. We showthat the phase transition between such steady states is effectively captured bythe expectation value of the open-loop operator.

Topological Phase Transitions Induced by Varying Topology and Boundaries in the Toric Code